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Upstate Attack Suspect-Fugitive Says, "I am Not Guilty"

2008_07_miladin2.jpgMiladin Kovacevic, who was charged with beating a fellow Binghamton University student into a coma, told a Serbian paper he won't return to America, "I know I am not guilty and I will prove that in front of a Serbian judge. I don't believe in the American legal system anymore." Kovacevic had fled the U.S. with the help of the Serbian consulate; U.S. officials have asked Serbia to return Kovacevic for prosecution here. The 21-year-old went on to say, "I'm sincerely worried about the security of my younger sister and of my family. Please understand that I can't tell you more for good reasons. I admit I'm in shock and I'm even afraid of the things I cannot see."

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  • mudball71

    what about Bryans behaviour? not that it justifies this violence, obviously. He was inebriated and potentially groped a woman, why? is there no record of this? or processed along with the other information?

  • IdaR

    "Yeah, I'm sure Vlade Divac's big ol' nationalist heart was bleeding while making his giant stacks of American dollars."



    I know he and Peja Stojakovic have done numerous charity programs and projects in California and they've both donated and worked to help in New Orleans. They've been very generous and Vlade Divac recently received some kind of acknowledgment for all he does.



    Today he is trying to buy houses in Serbia for the ethnically cleansed STILL IN REFUGEE CAMPS AND COLLECTIVE CENTERS FOR OVER A DECADE. These people are the truly ethnically cleansed: PERMANENTLY ETHNICALLY CLEANSED.



    SOME ETHNICALLY CLEANSED SERBS (Croatian Serbs) HAVE BEEN LIVING IN COLLECTIVE CENTERS FOR 17 YEARS!!



    Not the TEMPORARY and much-hyped "ethnically cleansed" people who leave an area during the thick of the war but then come back or can come back safely soon after it's over.



    By the way Peja Stojakovic and his family were ethnically cleansed Croatian Serbs (but you won't read of that because the mainstream downplays what happened to the Serbs). His home and his family's grocery store which they owned were burned down and destroyed. Only because he has basketball talent were they not left to rot in displacement camps.



    You'd never hear the end of such a story if a Muslim or Croat NBA player had been or claimed to have been ethnically cleansed. It would be pushed and pushed and pushed and every chance Serbs would be blamed.



    Additionally Vlade Divac adopted a daughter in February 1999 - just before the late March NATO bombing commenced - whose parents, Kosovo Serbs, had been murdered by the Albanian KLA on their way to the market.



    The baby was born in October 1998 but sometime before February 1999 they'd been slaughtered by the Albanians. The CIA and BND (German agency) as promoting, advising and training the KLA/UCK.

  • IdaR

    "Wait, the UNITED STATES is racist?

    Exactly how many times did Serbs try to wipe out another ethnicities in the 90s?"



    See you are a sheeple brainwashed by all that clumsy but enormous amount of propaganda. Plus you assume I'm Serbian as if a non-Serb couldn't see through the set up war, the constant lies (NATO bombed an Albanian convoy in April 1999 killing 86 but tried to claim Serbs did it - only a rare (and honest) western reporter who stayed in Kosovo found the U.S. ammo among the wreckage - and NATO THEN did admit it did the deed but changed its story to being tricked). Should point out that all those bombing missions were recorded so they KNEW all along their pilots did that bombing (and it included staffing the convoy for quite a while) and would have saddled Serbs with the blame, which they tried to, if they could get away with it. And they've gotten away with false blame innumerable times in the "reporting" of the war in the former Yugoslavia. In addition NATO did some other heavy bombing "accidents" of Albanian and Serbian civilians.



    The break up of Yugoslavia and the wars were SET UP BY THE WEST. The U.S. was in the forefront. There were weapons and military equipment sent to the separatists BEFORE the wars official began. Once Germany reunited (late 1989), weapons from the former eastern Germany were smuggled to Croatia. German, Austria and other countries were heavily involved in shipping these arms. U.S. agents were aiding the smuggling of weapons from Argentina to Croatia.



    The U.S. was bringing in Iranian arms and allowing it during the Bosnian war. As well there were weapons and mercenaries (including Mujahideen) coming in under guise of charities and using diplomatic license plates.



    The militant non-Serb separatists were supported pre, during and after the war and the propaganda was run for them.



    The census record doesn't show any "genocide" of the non-Serbs: The alleged "genocided" peoples are in the SAME PERCENTAGE or greater of each country after the so-called "genocide" as they were before. Bosnian Muslims are over 42-44% of Bosnia today (they even claim they are 50%); pre-war they were around 42-44%. Kosovo was claimed to be 90% ethnic Albanian before the war (though I think that's exaggerated and not factoring the Roma/gypsies who usually had Albanian names and were pressured by the Albanians to declare themselves Albanian) and today the claim is around 95%.



    What kind of "genocide" increases the percentage of the said "genocided" population from start to finish of the war? Did the Jewish population of Poland, Germany, Hungary show an increase in percentage or real numbers in 1946 versus 1939? NOT AT ALL.



    The census which shows the strongest genocide/ethnic cleansing is Croatia were the Croatian Serbs plunged from over 12.2% in 1991 to less than 4.5% in 2002.



    The Bosnian war was a swap of land and now there are 10s of thousands of more Muslims in cities they control than before the war while Serbs have been wiped out of Muslim and Croat controlled areas. Bosnia is divided now into a Serbian part and the Muslim-Croat "Federation".



    Further the Croats and Muslims had their own war within a war in Bosnia and to this day they live separate in many areas, and where they don't they have their kids go to school in different shifts or in different parts of the school building.



    Yugoslavia was divided into ethnically pure (or ethnically separated) statelets on old fault lines (from WWI and WWII) the easier for Europe to control and dominate it. And the destruction of Yugoslavia took out a competitor in the defense and construction industries, among others. Yugoslavia often outbid Germany and other countries in competing for projects in African, Middle Eastern, etc. countries.



    Yugoslavia built Saddam's underground bunkers which were not harmed by British and U.S. bunker busting bombs, even though they kept trying.



    The numbers killed in the war were greatly exaggerated on the non-Serb side and the dead are mostly military.



    The ethnic Serbs were an obstacle to the planed "independent" statelets as they had a significant population in most of them and they didn't want to break from Yugoslavia and/or separate from Serbia/other Serbs. Past history of independent Croatia and Bosnia (WWII) was a genuine genocide of the Serbian population.



    Serbia is the most ethnically diverse of the former Yugoslavia and the Catholic churches and mosques within Serbia proper were untouched during the wars and there are very many ethnic groups still existing there.

  • NannyState

    Sorry, #16. I call 'em as I see 'em and while there are, of course, many fine people who happen to be from Serbia, there's too many foul, obnoxious swine emanating from deep within your xenophobic, nationalist, genocidal society to ever want to sort them out. Let the Russians do it...until they tire of you as well.

  • rasputinsghost

    Wait, the UNITED STATES is racist?

    Exactly how many times did Serbs try to wipe out another ethnicities in the 90s?

    Yeah, I'm sure Vlade Divac's big ol' nationalist heart was bleeding while making his giant stacks of American dollars.

    Finally, I can't imagine why NATO bombed the fuck out of Serbia - it couldn't have been all the genocide going on, no no no. Supporting this violent fucking coward just because he speaks the same language as you, eats the same food, etc is pure idiocy. See his actions for what they are - he brutally attacked someone and ran the fuck away. Take your nationalism back to the 1930s.

  • IdaR

    "This is good reason to prevent any Serb from entering the U.S. They cannot be trusted to regard our laws and behave like human beings."



    I do think the guy was a fool to enter the racist U.S., but I wonder if all the Serbian Americans and other imports such as Vlade Divac and Predrag Stojakovic should leave too.



    It was Americans who went and recruited them - often times the Serbs were reluctant to leave - as the case of Predrag (Peja) Stojakovic who was very happy and very liked playing in the Greek leagues.



    Should point out that there's many top engineers from Serbia who've taught in U.S. universities for decades and have patents on supercomputers and inventions as well.



    As well a recent report on murder rate in the Balkans showed it was lower than western Europe and the U.S. The only Balkan country tied with the U.S.'s murder rate of 6 per 100,000 was Albania. Serbia only had a murder rate of 0.95 per 100,000 in 2006, so over 6 times lower than the U.S.



    But I do hope Serbs DON'T come to the U.S. and instead the talented, best and brightest Serbs go to Russia or some other non-NATO country - if they feel they have to leave (due to the NATO bombed out economy and sell-out puppet government - which was aided in installation by U.S. and Europe).

  • NannyState

    This is good reason to prevent any Serb from entering the U.S. They cannot be trusted to regard our laws and behave like human beings. Their government is a hollow sham of Milosevic era nationalism and extremist xenophobia. Why would anyone want to import these products into our country? He can remain in Sebia forever, with the rest of the contagion.

  • IdaR

    "Yeah, except for all of the eyewitnesses that said this kid beat the crap out of Steinhauer and continued to stomp on him long after he was unconscious on the floor."



    Some of the witnesses may be pointing to him because of his size and he was more noticeable while the more nondescript boys were going to town on a downed Steinhauer. Some say the attack actually happened outside the bar, so some of those "witnesses" may not be exactly accurate and perhaps couldn't see exactly whose feet or fists were actually stomping or hitting Steinhauer in the melee. If there were people/objects around, those more than a couple yards away wouldn't have a clear view of the floor/lower couple feet - though they could easily see Kovacevic from his height. He may have been standing close while the others (who were blocked from view) could have been beating on Steinhauer.

    Also actual medical information on his recovery is conspicuously absent. There's absolutely no mention of him needing artificial respiration or intravenous feeding. A friend said last month that Bryan Steinhauer could move and did communicate with blinks. Plus the friend felt sure that Bryan Steinhauer was very aware and knew who people were - to me it made me wonder if Bryan was purposely holding back on speaking. It could be interest to make him appear worse for the case.

    The parents now contradict themselves with his mother claiming he's still in a coma but the father saying he yells out, cries out and has a tortured expression as he's more and more aware of what happened to him. That is quite a dramatic rendering and sounds embellished, yet at the same time blows away that he's in a coma.

  • theevilone

    Yeah, except for all of the eyewitnesses that said this kid beat the crap out of Steinhauer and continued to stomp on him long after he was unconscious on the floor. I am sure there is plenty of blame to go around, but the reason this kid's bail was higher is because he was the one that beat him into unconsciousness and beyong.

  • IdaR

    Also the father's statements to CNN about his son "yelling out" "crying out" when he sees them and having and expression of "torture" as he because more aware of the situation actually disprove that he is in a coma. Coma patients do not watch people and then yell out when they see them.



    It sounds as if the father was trying to be very dramatic, yet at the same time he blew the claim that the guy was in a coma.



    There is motive to make Bryan Steinhauer seem worse off and less recovered to make the case. As well the city is denying the police report which was temporarily released.



    Those who were able to read it claim it more accuses the Bosnian Muslims of beating him while he was down - not Kovacevic. If so it would prove discrimination as Kovacevic's bail was 10 times higher than the other men back in may. So if those two were equally or more guilty but Kovacevic was getting the blame it would prove the discrimination he metioned.

  • IdaR

    People here seem ignorant that the fight was started between Bryan Steinhauer and the BOYFRIEND (Sanel Softic) of the girl and not Kovacevic.



    The boyfriend (who is by the way a BOSNIAN MUSLIM - and so is the third men charged in the beating) was angry with Bryan Steinhauer for following them (him and his girlfriend) getting too close and he accused him of grabbing or pinching her rear end. They were shouting at each other when, according to him and the girlfriend, Steinhauer head-butted Sanel and gave him a bloody nose. Kovacevic only came into the fray after this and was hit on the side of the head by Steinhauer.



    They all claim Steinhauer was drunk and aggressive, but the police won't release his blood alcohol levels which would prove/disprove this accusation.



    No height and weight is given for Sanel Softic but pictures suggest he is an average sized guy. The girlfriend said she couldn't tell if Steinhauer was striking at her boyfriend or Kovacevic, so the hit to Kovacevic could have been an accident.

  • dadoc

    Ah, Jeez, not this again.

    It's NOT a JEWISH thing. The big thug beat up the little guy, the thug basically went to the corrupt & paranoid Slav Embassy & took off. It's not the victim, it's the perp. In case you never bothered to check some things out, the Serbs are friends to noone but Serbs, and even then that's iffy. My pardon to Serbs who are not that way, but some places "take care of their own", right or wrong. There's no extradition from FRY, as there is no extradition from Israel. US Citizens, by treaty, also can not be extradited from many other jurisdictions. Drop the usual stuff. The dirtbag is a criminal who should be caught, transported, tried & dealt with as directed by the judicial process. Not a "hate crime", just a thug who committed a crime & should be held accountable in the jurisdiction where it occurred.

  • west side Michael

    He beat up a skinny Jewish student

    back in Serbia, he is now a hero,no doubt.

    Serbs are not friends of Jews.

  • I know I am not guilty



    That's why you fled crying like a baby holding your mommy's hand?





    I don't believe in the American legal system anymore.



    how convenient. bring this big baby to justice in the united states... the problem is, he knows he's fucked!

  • dadoc

    And don't get me started on the whole Ustashe/Chetnik thing. I'm still recovering from conversations with my father-in-law.

  • dadoc

    #5, you forgot to mention Mladic. Typic former-J(Y)ugoslav approach to life. Tito, Croats, Serbs, (Slovenians are kinda mellow), Montenegrans, Kosovars (fun to hang out & party with, but DON'T piss them off, gotta watch them Albanians). Totally different mindset.

    Married to a Croat.

    In a way, agreeing with #s 1 & 5.



    Dadoc

  • rodney

    Another in the line of great Serbians such as Milošević, Karadzic, and Krstić.

  • krunkymunky

    nothing says "i'm not guilty" like refusing to appear in court (or in the case of Karl Rove, a congressional panel).

  • Art Vandelay

    This sociopath should be rendered to somewhere a confession can be extracted. I hear the Egyptians are pretty good at it.

  • JRod5417

    "Please understand that I can't tell you more for good reasons. I admit I'm in shock and I'm even afraid of the things I cannot see."



    F*cking oversized blabbering baby. He's probably sucking at his mom's teats as we speak.

  • theevilone

    [i]"The 135-pound Steinhauer remains comatose and uncommunicative but occasionally cries out in pain, said his parents, who live in Brooklyn.



    Kovacevic's mother, Branka, said in the same Serbian interview that she thinks the American press is exaggerating Steinhauer's condition. The real victim, she said, is her own family.



    "Bryan is feeling completely well ..." Branka Kovacevic told Gazeta. "Nevertheless, the hunt on our family goes on and we can't see an end to it." [/i]



    No wonder this kid is such a douchebag. It's genetic.

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